Concord
Ther [Thermometer] Thursday, June 21, 1917 Wea [Weather]
Fine
Clear & very warm with fresh S.W. [southwest] wind.
Thunder caps drifting numerously high overhead
in P.M. but nothing came of them.
  Irises now at their best. Foliage of forest trees
almost if not quite full. A few strawberries
ripening.
  Green Frogs & Tree Toads in full cry far & near
last evening & this.
  Local birds numerous & singing freely all day.
2 Blackburnian Warblers & 3 D. virens [Dendroica virens] singing in
Pulpit Rock woods, Peabody bird at Cow Pasture,
Yellow thr. Vireo [Yellow-throated Vireo] (new comer) Red-eye [Red-eyed Vireo] & Solitary [Solitary Vireo]
close about house; Towhee & Indigo bird in
Birch field. The pair of Bluebirds that lost there [their]
entire brood of young during heavy rain of 17th
copulating this eve [evening] & [male] singing delightfully. The [female]
building a second nest in pole box front of barn.
  Spent entire day spraying with George to
draw the tub & work the pump. Brown sent
his hand pump & 2 men, also. We all
worked in Pulpit Rock woods & Birch Field.
Gypsy larvae by millions there, some
half grown, others only just hatched.
  Mr. De Merrilli called at 7 P.M. staying 
half an hour.

Dan French [Daniel Chester French] received Hon. Deg. [Honorary Degree] M.A. [Master of Arts] at Harvard to-day.

Concord
Ther [Thermometer] Friday, June 22, 1917 Wea [Weather]
Perfect.
Cloudless & very warm; forenoon windless;
light southerly breeze in afternoon.
  Birds singing well in early morning but
generally silent through mid-day hours
and rather unusually so towards evening.
Heard the White-throated Sparrow a few times.
There has been very little sustained & fervent
Robin singing thus far this year, even
at daybreak. Two broods of young nearly
ready to leave nests in wood shed &
apple tree crotch at back garden door.
  Percy brought up his son John this morning
& spent the day getting him started in
gardening work here. They cut the lawn,
weeded the strawberry bed etc. I was 
with them most of forenoon.
  Duren came with his power sprayer this
morning. He & George worked all forenoon
at Ball's Hill. He reports Gypsy larvae
raging there & foliage nearly ruined.
I went out with them after dinner when
we sprayed oaks & birches in Birch Field &
along wood road to Bensen's. Conditions
very bad there.
First Wildwood strawberries this eve. [evening] They
are delicious - very best I ever tasted.